Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

TarryBlogging continues vigorously (Well you guys/gals know me). I was having some trouble keeping time. (Working like 14-18 hours a day). But I am (as we speak)on the RealTravel . Please do search for "tarry" (duh..sorry) and you'll find me there. You'll follow my trip across the country and follow my impressions about the country (and also upcountry) out there. I am obviously pushing Virtualization all over the place! (hehehe) More later... Take care, Tarry

As promised. It is ready to be downloaded here .

I was pleased to be part of the select group to test the "VMware Converter Beta".This is a very important tool and I have been waiting for it for quite sometime.

We will soon update our Vyatta Virtual Appliance. I am working closely with my Vyatta friends to provide you with a brand new and improved Vyatta OFR!

Who are the guys behind openQRM initiative. If you remember I did cover that in the older post of site, you will find out more about them. They are the founding members of the OMC club. I may do an interview with the guys in the coming weeks. I am in talks with the folks (among others) as I will be displaying the openQRM during my trip to Africa . BTW: If you want to follow my trip to Africa , please do check my Travel Blog at RealTravel . Now getting back to openQRM. What is it? In Qluster's words: openQRM provides provisioning of the entire software stack on physical servers and virtual machines like VMware and Xen. openQRM also has a policy engine so that resources can be provisioned based on external business needs and the requirements of internal organizations automatically. The Qlusters’ Hot Migration enables the migration of running applications from one machine to another without service interruption. My take on DataCenter Management and SMB: ...

Quick update... I have made the move to Media Temple. Oraflame.com will be dropped VirTarry is under construction

I have been looking for an alternative against my Lycos site. I have my website hosted there. Well MediaTemple offers some real cool stuff for $20 a month! I pay , hang on how much do I pay? Well 17.50 for I have 4 MySQL databases 4G diskspace 40G monthly transfer And some goodies And what does Grid Server (which I saw on Techcrunch today) has to offer? 100 GBs of premium storage 1 TB of short-path bandwidth Host up to 100 individual sites 64 MB Ruby/Mongrel container All of the features below, and more... That is 2 euros less than what I pay and 20 times more disk space and 25 times more data transfer!